The humans behind Rocket Raccoon's starring role in 'Guardians of the Galaxy'

February 19, 2015 1:11 PM

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Early in the making of Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy," visual effects supervisor Stephane Ceretti invited a raccoon named Oreo to spend a few hours in his London office. He was looking for inspiration for one of the movie's central characters, the mouthy wiseguy Rocket Raccoon, and the natural world seemed like a productive starting place.

"They touch everything. They're very tactile animals," Ceretti recalled in a phone interview last week. "We spent a lot of time filming the way he moved so the animators could reference that. Even though it's a raccoon that can walk and talk, we just want to make him look as present in the image as ...